Downtrodden Sentence Examples

13) extols his fame for rebuilding the desolate city of Jerusalem and for raising up fresh homes for the downtrodden people.

We ought to encourage the empowerment of all those who feel oppressed or downtrodden.

As the conquerors swept away the Roman fiscal system, which the Visigoths had retained, and replaced it by a poll tax (which was not levied on old men, women, children, cripples or the very poor) and a land tax, the gain to the downtrodden serfs of the fisc was immense.